Shrinking Pains overview

Overview

Shrinking Pains comes from Bedtime Phobias and is published by Bedtime Phobias. It arrived on Steam on Feb 26, 2018, and it sits naturally among Single-player and Family Sharing. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows and Steam so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

Shrinking Pains's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 0 players at 3 October 2026 - 19:20:48 UTC, with a tracked peak near 2. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 85% positive across 226 reviews.

Language and system requirements

Shrinking Pains is available in 1 languages including:

regional rating details listed by Steam when available

Sales, recommendations, and streams

Shrinking Pains has sold up to 8,180 units and has recommendation data pending. Revenue data is not available for this game yet. On Twitch, 0 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.

Shrinking Pains overview details

Shrinking Pains combines live player counts with reviews, pricing, platform support, Store metadata, dated player history, media, recent news, and related games.

Steam Store description

Did your ceiling always look like that? Your vision peels at the edges, folding in. Everything is white, empty. You spend a day seeing how many coins you can fit into the hollows above your collarbones. You wonder how long it will take until there is nothing left of you to touch. Overview Made in 48 hours for the Global Game Jam 2018, Shrinking Pains is a short narrative experience that explores a semi-autobiographical struggle with anorexia. Story Play as a sufferer of anorexia as they navigate their life and relationships. Features Choose your partner preference before you play. Strong black and white visuals. Immersive original soundtrack. Multiple endings. Explores mental health. Narrative driven visual novel. Characters Isabella is a gentle girl with a wicked sense of humour. She is a professional violinist with a great love of sitcoms. Taylor is prickly young man with a warm heart. He works as a software engineer by day and sells his knitting on Etsy in his spare time. Yuuto has been your best friend for years and put up with your emotional baggage as long as he's known you. He's reliable, dependable and can't text to save his life. Vivienne's claw-like nails chime against her wineglass when she's talking. They leave long red marks against your skin as she pulls you to the door... Hunter looks good smoking in his leather jacket. When he puts his hand on your neck you don't know if you feel excited or scared... Content Warning Shrinking Pains deals with potentially distressing themes of mental illness and destructive behaviour. Be warned that some of the co…

SteamPulse editorial summary

Shrinking Pains is listed as a game with Free to play. It supports Windows, belongs to Single-player and Family Sharing, and is associated with Free To Play and Indie. SteamPulse's latest observation records 0 players at 3 October 2026 - 19:20:48 UTC, a tracked peak of 2, and 85% positive reviews.

Overview tags

Free to PlayIndieSexual ContentVisual NovelSingleplayerExperimentalNarrationExperiencePoint & ClickPsychological HorrorStory Rich

Support and legal notes

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